Public Enemy by Eitan Miskevich
Public Enemy have unveiled more details of their new album What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down which will be their first with Def Jam in over two decades when it’s released on September 25th.
While first cut Fight The Power Remix 2020 brought the collaborations with Nas, Rapsody, Black Thought, YG, Jahi and Questlove back to our attention after it was first aired at the BET Awards back in June, we now know there’ll also be appearances on the LP from Beastie Boys heroes Mike D and Ad-Rock, George Clinton, Cypress Hill, Run-DMC and Ice-T to name just a few.
“Cultural Institutions are important,” Chuck D has said of the group’s return to Def Jam. “Being an integral part of one is an honor bestowed and to uphold. Public Enemy songs are forever sonic prints in the sands of time. And it’s time – it’s necessary – to bring the noise again from a place called home.”
What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down tracklist:
When The Grid Goes Down ft. George Clinton
Grid ft. Cypress Hill and George Clinton
State Of The Union (STFU) ft. DJ Premier
Merica Mirror ft. Pop Diesel
Public Enemy Number Won ft. Mike D, Ad-Rock, Run-DMC
Toxic
Yesterday Man ft. Daddy-O
Crossroads Burning (Interlude) ft. James Bomb
Fight The Power: Remix 2020 ft. Nas, Rapsody, Black Thought, Jahi, YG, Questlove
Beat Them All
Smash The Crowd ft. Ice-T, PMD
If You Can’t Join Em Beat Em
Go At It ft. Jahi
Don’t Look At The Sky (Interlude) ft. Mark Jenkins
Rest In Beats ft. The Impossebulls
R.I.P. Blackat
Closing: I Am Black ft. Ms. Ariel